All organizations concerned by research in the EU Member States can participate to the FP6. The candidate countries will be treated as the Member States. The FP6 associated countries like the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) et some other third countries are eligible and so they can obtain co-financing from the programme. The other third countries , the MED countries, the NIS countries are particularly concerned in the programme: International Cooperationâ€. Moreover, those countries can participate to the FP6 without receive any common fund.